Biden aims to counter China's global infrastructure project with new G7 initiative

The G7 will announce "a positive alternative that reflects our values, our standards, and our way of doing business," a second senior official said.

13 more die at RMCH Covid units

4 new patients were admitted at the Covid-19 units of the hospital in the past 24 hours.

DEPZ garment workers block Dhaka-Tangail highway for arrears

Police said that over 300 workers of the export-oriented Lenny Fashions Ltd blocked the roads at about 6:30am

Start-up launches India’s first Covid home test kit

Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit — the country’s first — will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3-billion people.

UK Covid-19 heroes recognised in Queen’s honours list

Bingham said she was ‘humbled’ to be recognised, paying tribute to National Health Service workers who have ‘risked their health and their lives in fighting Covid.

US tells J&J millions of jabs can’t be used

The US Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had told Johnson & Johnson that millions of doses of Covid vaccine produced at a troubled plant can’t be used because of possible contamination issues.

Dhaka sees fresh spike in Covid cases

Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur struggled to contain a rapid spread of Covid-19 despite controlling public movement and other activities.

Health sector has not received adequate allocation

The fault is not only on the ministry alone. It is also failure of political leadership. Contracting politics or contracting economy is going on nowadays.

US Senate passes bill to counter China’s tech threat

The US Senate passed a sweeping industrial policy bill Tuesday aimed at countering a surging economic threat from rival China.

Trudeau calls killing of Muslim family ‘terrorist attack’

‘This killing was no accident. This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,’ Trudeau said during a speech at the House of Commons.